package man-db 2.5.9-4 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1

[komputes]

Binary package hint: man-db

Installed GIMP on Natty. I have backports, proposed, gnome3 PPA, equinox PPA and team-orta PPA enabled.

Running GIMP after installing gives this error:

It appears that you are using GIMP for the first time. GIMP will now create a folder named '/home/ubuntu/.gimp-2.6' and copy some files to it.

Creating folder '/home/ubuntu/.gimp-2.6'...
Copying file '/home/ubuntu/.gimp-2.6/gtkrc' from '/etc/gimp/2.0/gtkrc'...
Could not open '/etc/gimp/2.0/gtkrc' for reading: No such file or directory

Terminal output:
Processing triggers for man-db ...
debconf: DbDriver "config": /var/cache/debconf/config.dat is locked by another process: Resource temporarily unavailable
dpkg: error processing man-db (--unpack):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Processing triggers for python-gmenu ...
Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/desktop.POSIX.cache...
Processing triggers for bamfdaemon ...
Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/bamf.index...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils ...
Processing triggers for python-support ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
 man-db
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
ubuntu@msi:~$ sudo dpkg --configure -a
dpkg: error: dpkg status database is locked by another process
ubuntu@msi:~$ sudo lsof /var/lib/dpkg/lock
lsof: WARNING: can't stat() fuse.gvfs-fuse-daemon file system /home/ubuntu/.gvfs
      Output information may be incomplete.
COMMAND PID USER FD TYPE DEVICE SIZE/OFF NODE NAME
aptd 15290 root 14uW REG 8,3 0 5767887 /var/lib/dpkg/lock
ubuntu@msi:~$ sudo apt-get install -f
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  linux-headers-2.6.38-8 linux-headers-2.6.38-8-generic
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: man-db 2.5.9-4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic 2.6.38.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Jun 9 17:28:09 2011
ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release i386 (20110427.1)
SourcePackage: man-db
Title: package man-db 2.5.9-4 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Robert Roth (evfool)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug #746912, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.
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